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Mounting prosperity of the overall population in third-world countries like India, has enabled a constant and significant rise in their consumption level in every domain possible. One of these domains is the automobile sector, which has been growing swiftly to meet rising customer demand. The revenues produced by this industry have enabled it to play an important role in the global economy's growth. With a steepening rise in global population, the demand of private ownership of vehicles has also seen a rapid increase. In 2010 itself, there were over a billion cars running in the world (Article: Motor Vehicle). The rising utilization of customary vehicles because of fast urbanization genuinely affected the climate as well as the reliance of the business on oil costs has empowered expansion in costs which keeps on pushing purchasers towards other better options. In India, vehicles in general get old and the advancements in them are viewed as obsolete, fossil fuel by-product delivered from those old (not in condition) just as new innovation traditional vehicles contribute fundamentally to ground-level air contamination on the planet (Gavaev and Ertman, 2020), the wellspring of which is from the inner ignition motor worked by the consuming energizes (Dey and Mehta,2020). The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long declared cars to be “mobile sources” of air pollution, claiming that over 75% of carbon monoxide pollution in the US is due to vehicular emissions (Article: How much Air Pollution comes from Cars?) which adds on to various genuine natural issues like corrosive downpour and a worldwide temperature alteration (Dey and Mehta 2020). The four-wheeler business has been under steady examination of the public authority and purchasers in their advancement for creating and assembling EV which will help tackle vehicular emanation. Ongoing plan of vital enactment, and vehicle discharge guidelines and improve traffic, the broad framework has constrained different producers to track down a superior substitution rather than the conventional petroleum derivative driven autos, which won't amount to natural contamination and will likewise fulfil the need of present and future. EVs are thus considered as a better alternative in this regard and is expected to minimize the harmful impact on the environment. In light of past investigations EVs have demonstrated to lessen carbon dioxide by 30-40% (Asadi, Nilashi, Samad, Abdullah, Mahmoud, Alkinani and Yadegaridehkordi 2020). The consideration of the world car market and customers are currently on EVs and are continually attempting to make EVs fundamental segment of future car market. However, before developing such an eco-friendly automobile some certain issues and obstacles need to be addressed in order to make EVs a more viable option rather than conventional vehicles. In this research authors have identified the challenges faced by automobile manufacturers in manufacturing and sale of EVs and will subsequently follow up the research with a detailed study of the challenges using Fuzzy Logic, in order to identify the most prominent challenges faced by the automobile industry and will provide a blueprint for future development in the field of manufacture and sale.
The main motivation behind the research done is that the growth of EV in market is at slow pace. This means that sale of EV in worldwide market is still in its infancy and has huge scope for growth. One more reason is that passenger vehicle segment is still not a major contributor to overall sale of vehicles in India.
The main limitations from customer point of view are cost of battery, range, price of EV. Low sale of EV in India is critical to understand where technical, factors are also impacting sale growth.
This research has been structured as: firstly, an outline of the challenges that are being faced by the industry in the manufacturing and sale of EVs, which will be given through literature review. The research methodology will follow up next. After this, a detailed calculations and analysis of all the challenges will be illustrated in the next section followed by results and conclusions that will be drawn out highlighting prominent challenges.